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Police ID Golden man found dead whose truck is linked to University of Utah shooting

Mitchell Bradford Ingle was 63 years old

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A homicide case in Golden may be linked to the fatal shooting of an international student on the University of Utah campus Monday night.

Golden police found  dead in his trailer at the Clear Creek RV Park in central Golden while conducting a welfare check Tuesday for the Salt Lake City Police Department. Ingle’s green 2000 Ford pickup truck was linked to the , a 23-year-old student from China, during an attempted carjacking.

Police are investigating Ingle’s death as a homicide, although his cause of death has not been officially released. He is believed to have been dead for a couple of days.

Police identified Austin Jeffrey Boutain, 24, as a suspect in the campus shooting. He and his wife, 23-year-old Kathleen Elizabeth Rose Boutain, are people of interest in Ingle’s death. Both are in custody in Salt Lake City.

The City of Golden spokeswoman Karlyn Tilley said investigators are not sure how Ingle and the Boutains are connected. Salt Lake City police also said they are not “100 percent sure” how Ingle’s truck is involved.

Kathleen Boutain, who is held on theft and drug charges unrelated to the campus shooting, told police that she and her husband traveled to Salt Lake City in a stolen vehicle, according to her arrest affidavit.

Before the shooting, Kathleen Boutain had gone to the University of Utah campus to report that her husband had assaulted her while the two were camping at the adjacent Red Butte Canyon campgrounds, Wilking said.

Shortly after, Guo was killed in a carjacking, he said.

“Unfortunately, the victim was up in the area and there was a ‘wrong place, wrong time’ situation,” Salt Lake City police Det. Greg Wilking said.

Officers are still looking for Ingle’s green truck, a 2000 Ford F-350 with Colorado license plates 460-DZX.

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